28 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CYPRIPEDIUM NIVEUM AS A PARENT. 
(Continued from Vol. VI., b. 365.) 
THERE are two names recorded of the cross between C. niveum and C. 
Spicerianum (Hansen’s Orch. Hyb., p. 297) C. X Isabelle, and C. x Spicero- 
niveum, while a third, C. x Marriottianum, is possibly ofthesame parentage — 
(O.K,; iit.y pe 951). 
C. X Georgianum represents the union of C. superbiens and C. niveum 
(O. R., ii., p. 164), and C. xX The Pard is supposed to be derived from the 
same parents (O. R., ii. p. 317). This last obtained an Award of Merit in 
1894. 
In the Lindenia for 1895 (vol. ix., p. 15), appears a picture and descrip- - 
tion of C. X Madame Octave Opoix, the parents being C. x superciliare 
and C. niveum. The influence of C. niveum is well shown in the flower. 
I have one seedling of this cross of my own raising, discovered 6th March, 
1897, but so far it has made very little progress. 
C. X Olivia, which received an Award of Merit in London and a First- 
class Certificate in Manchester in August last, is recorded as a hybrid 
between C. tonsum and concolor (O. R. vi. pp: 285, 286), but it is probable 
that C. niveum was the second parent. I saw two plants in bud at Bush 
Hill Park in July last, and Mr. E. V. Low told me that they came from 
America, the parentage given being tonsum crossed with niveum, though it 
was thought that some mistake had been made, and that C. concolor was 
the second parent. He has since written, however, that as the flower has 
become mature the niveum character has developed, and no doubt the 
record of niveum is correct. Mr. J. O’Brien also thinks C. niveum much 
more probable. (See also Garden, liv, p. 129, and Journ. of Hort., Aug. 25, 
1898, pp. 142, 143.) 
C. X Saron, derived from C. niveum X (?) venustum Measuresianum 
(O. R. vi, p. 28), completes the list of those hybrids having C. niveum for 
one of the parents. 
So far as I can ascertain, there is only one instance on record of any 
one of these hybrids having become a parent in its turn. The case alluded 
to is that of C. x Tautzianum, which conjointly with C. callosum has pro- 
duced C. X Nandii (O. R. ii, p- 310). It received an Award of Merit in 
1894 
Statistics are usually considered dry reading, but if a list could be com- 
piled of the number of these plants that have flowered and proved true, — 
now in existence in the collections of this country, the Continent, and 
America, how very interesting it would be to many of us. Failing these 
figures it can only be a matter for surmise, but I think it may safely be 
inferred that the number is small. The absence of quotations in the Cata- 
